St. John's Church
Red-brick Gothic Revival church on a hilltop, crowned by the city's tallest tower and a carillon.
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This guide to St. John's Church in Bergen starts high on its brick tower, where masons are at work behind the scaffolding right now. It reaches back to architect Herman Backer's machine-made bricks, the damp that turned up before the doors even opened in eighteen ninety-four, and the chemists called in during the nineteen thirties. Best heard from the square below, looking up at the tower.
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